Example sentences of "home [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of September Violet came home for a long weekend and Perdita was so bloody-minded that in despair Daisy escaped to Harvest Festival for an hour of peace . |
| 2 | They were told a carefully graduated series of lies : first that their mother was staying in hospital for a while , then that she might not come home for a long time , and finally that she might never come back . |
| 3 | It was very good very very good for women that have been home for a long time and want to get their confidence back . |
| 4 | Notts went ahead when Mike Simpson volleyed home after a long throw-in . |
| 5 | Carl had got home after a long day . |
| 6 | That 's something that did n't happen when I came home after a long day at work . |
| 7 | At the major shows , winners are often exposed to the glare of television lights , and expected to parade for the cameras as well , before journeying back home after a long day . |
| 8 | Nick Brown was cleared of drugs charges in Goa , but has only just been allowed home after a long campaign by his mother . |
| 9 | Now , as she crossed into Farringdon Street and saw familiar landmarks , she stopped and put down her bag , gazing about her with the pleasure of someone who has come home after a long absence . |
| 10 | When Sombro comes home after a long excursion , he 's usually very thin , in poor shape and a bit battered and bruised . |
| 11 | He and his son were coming home from a long day 's fishing . |
| 12 | He had sought and received asylum in the Senegalese embassy in Conakry only a month after his return home from a long period of exile [ see p. 38181 ] . |
| 13 | If a cat performs some very strange action — finds its way home over a long distance , predicts an earthquake , or senses the return of its owners when they are some distance from the house — then it is a challenge for us to try and find out which particular sensory pathway was involved . |